Adult inhumation at the northern edge of early Natufian Structure 1 (~14,400-14,200 cal BP), Shubayqa, Jordan.
Skeleton is heavily disturbed by placement of later child burial C175. Bones also show evidence of damage consistant with rodent damage. Skull appears to be absent, though fragments of mandible were uncovered in nearby contexts.
Model shows one of 13 stages modelled during excavation of cross cutting burials. Reprocessed with Agisoft Photoscan 1.4.1 from 18 cameras. Reduced from ~1.2million polygons to ~ 250,000 polygons with blender.org.
Created by Tobias Richter, Emmy Bocaege, Peter Ilsøe, Anthony Ruter, Alexis Pantos, Patrick Pedersen and Lisa Yeomans.
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Read the associated article: Ochre, Ground Stone, and Wrapping the Dead in the Late Epipalaeolithic (Natufian) Levant: Revealing the Funerary Practices at Shubayqa 1, Jordan
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